LIES 2013: Michele Roberts and Postmodernism, Feminism and Medievalism in Literature in English

full name / name of organization:

Department of English Literature and Literary Linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland

contact email:

kbronk@wa.amu.edu.pl; bbronkk@gmail.com

From the early feminists to postmodern protagonists her novels rewrite medieval saints and sinners, Victorian mediums and contemporary visionaries, offering us new perspectives on well known stories and motifs.
As Michele Roberts herself will be our guest of honor, her work is the inspiration for our 2013 Literature in English Symposium but we welcome papers about topics related to postmodern rewriting of history and culture as well as the feminist standpoint on both contemporary and earlier literature in English. Papers in other languages (German, French, Spanish) will also be considered.
The deadline for submissions is 5th February 2013. Please send abstracts and short bios to dr Katarzyna Bronk (kbronk@wa.amu.edu.pl and bbronkk@gmail.com). Selected papers will be published in SILiE (Peter Lang Verlag).

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cultural_studies_and_historical_approaches

eighteenth_century

ethnicity_and_national_identity

gender_studies_and_sexuality

general_announcements

graduate_conferences

international_conferences

medieval

popular_culture

postcolonial

religion

renaissance

romantic

theatre

theory

twentieth_century_and_beyond

victorian

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